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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1932
Page
2
Chicago reports show hogs strong with light weights selling to 5.00 and top quotes near 4.96. Arrivals at 17 000. Cattle steady with beef steers 8.00 to 10.00 and calves around 4.50 to 7.50. Sheep 14 000 steady with lambs 6.26 and feeders 4.00 to 5.00.
Combined hog receipts at 21 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota totaled 15 700 for the 24 hours ending 8:00 A M. today, up from 9 400 a week ago and 2 500 a year ago. Prices ranged with weights from 140 to 650 pounds, steady to higher, based on bulk transactions.
Shipments showing excessive weight shrinkage and hogs excessively filled are sold at prices above or below quotes. Hogs bought on shipping point weights are excluded from quotations.
Frank Buck's Bring Em Back Alive screens at the State Theatre. The wild animal documentary draws big crowds with real un staged footage of predators and peril. Audiences witness death struggles such as crocodile versus leopard and python attacks.
Lodges Washington Lodge No. 26 A EF A M Regular meeting first Friday of each month Glenn Mace W M A W Yard Secretary Damascus Shrite No. 10 WS of J Regular meeting fourth Tuesday of each month at Masonic Temple rooms Mus Grace B Twinam W H P Mra J W Bidwell W Scribe
The notice lists hastbound and fastbound trains for the Railway Time Table Co. R I & P with numbers and daily frequencies. It includes passenger trains No 12 Apache No 4 Golden State Limited No 3 daily and No 21 22 evening passes, plus freight services No 94 and No 91. Arrival and departure times span morning to late night. J C McKay serves as agent with a Washington southwest line reference.
Norman Bean and others from Havre area join reunions near Sunset park while others recount West Liberty fair history. Barbara Cuddy to teach Clar ence Indiana. Bring Em Back Alive praised for jungle education value. Reunion guests travel from Des Moines Kirksville Seattle while local rail yards ship hogs amid rain.
Acheson Dunsmore of Ainsworth earns top honors in four fairs as their Duroc herd places with one first and two seconds at Mt Pleasant Burlington Donaldson and Eldon. The firm has built the herd by selecting premier breeding stock for years.
A lyrical call to leave the crowded eastern city for a land by Heaven blest. The poem celebrates golden sunsets lakes of blue roses and dew, pure air and sweet water, and friendly people in a joyous western paradise.
Aged herd owner Mr. Dunsmore drove the herd sire to Des Moines this week for the state fair and expects a strong showing in his class.
Mr and Mrs Forrest H Brinning Mrs Cris Prinning and Mr and Mrs Oriel Sankey returned home Friday night from a two weeks visit with friends in Oklahoma and Kansas Miss Opal and Ethel Wilson of near Wellman are visiting at Wal
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